Originally we started out by creating up to the scene where to goat gets kicked out of the old tailors home, we did this by using low comedy to entertain our demographic. low comedy is more childish comedy used more physically to appeal to younger audiences that don’t have a full understanding of language, high comedy would consist of more dirty language and more adult content which would not appeal to younger audience’s, and our demographic is our target audience, in this case our demographic/target audience would be primary children.
We also used physical theatre to make building and scenarios with our bodies, and further adding to that we used aspects of Brechtian theatre. Brechtian theatre is when you break the fourth wall, breaking the forth wall is the act of speaking directly to the audience, we also got the audience directly involved in our play by making the goat graze and eat the audience’s hair and cosmetics.
We did a lot of research involving 3 brothers during Nazi Germany and how they lived and died, we used all of this information we gathered to further expand and improve the 3 brothers in our play. We did a good amount of research on the elephant man, which was one of the first people to be severely deformed and judged by his appearance, and how i could apply that to my character ‘the landlord’, we researched this and I’ve applied this to make the audience feel sorry for my character but at the exactly the same time hate him because he is a thief, he steals the magical treasures from the brothers out of envy and for personal gain. The way I would apply this to my character is by using Theatre of the grotesque which is the technique that you’d use to really over exaggerate a certain part of your body, in this case id lead with my head and right shoulder to really show the fact that the landlord is deformed to the audience.
We have also used our resonators to further personalize our characters and make them our own, for example with the 3 brothers they are slightly using their chest resonator to get that feeling of ‘ they are quite strong and brave ‘ but not so much so that they sound like middle-aged men, for the father he uses a chest resonator to show he is a proud, loving father, and the goat as well as the landlord will use more of a nasal resonator to sound more sly and conniving and so the audience know they are not good/nice characters.
If I was directing this play…
. I’d incorporate more comedic faces and voices, because it would appeal more to our demographic.
. I’d make it so that all the characters voices get deeper and older as the play goes on, because in the script it says that the sons travel the whole world, I’d do this because it shows character development, world development and the passage of time.
. I’d have the 3 sons pick up mannerisms from their masters but at the same time keep their brotherly mannerisms, I’d do this because it shows character development and the passage of time.
. I’d have the guests at the in do a proper comedic, cartoony snoring while they sleep, because our demographic are children if everything is over-dramatic and cartoony they will be more engaged and would be more natural to them.
. I’d involve the entire audience as the friends and relatives that gather around for a feast or to get rich, because if we do this the play would be more engaging towards our demographic and we would be utilizing Brechtian theatre more.
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